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Trading Strategy June 5th, 2025 18min to read

The Trader’s Blueprint: How to Build a Winning Stock Watchlist

Building a watchlist isn’t just some checklist exercise. It’s a mirror. It reflects your philosophy, your purpose, and most importantly, your intent in the market. And if you don’t get that right from the start, you’re screwed before you even place your first trade. See, investors and traders live in two different universes. Investors are like farmers — they plant seeds, sit back, and pray for sunshine over the next ten years. That’s fine for them. Let them chase dividend yields and price-to-book ratios. But traders? We’re different animals. We’re in the now business. We’re hunters. And a proper trader’s watchlist is a weapon — sharp, focused, and ready to strike.

Trading Strategy May 29th, 2025 17min to read

Trading in the Age of Trump

You’d better start wrapping your head around this one cold, hard fact: politics and economics are now joined at the hip like two drunks stumbling out of a casino. You can’t untangle ‘em. Not anymore. And the sooner we all stop pretending we still live in some Rockwell painting where the invisible hand of the free market lovingly guides capital to its highest use — the better.

Trading Strategy May 22nd, 2025 22min to read

A Tale of Two Markets: Moody’s Downgrade and Traders Wake Up Call

For the first time in American history, all three major credit rating agencies — S&P, Fitch, and now the last domino, Moody’s — have stopped pretending. The U.S. government is no longer a AAA borrower. That’s not an opinion anymore. That’s a hard, rubber-stamped reality.

Trading Strategy May 15th, 2025 29min to read

Decoding the Money Matrix: Which Asset is Winning the Global Wealth Race?

Paul Tudor Jones said it best: if you're serious about growing wealth, you find the fastest horse in the race. Not the prettiest, not the most talked about — the one running circles around everything else. That’s what this article is about. Not hype. Not headlines. Just raw, unfiltered performance.

Trading Strategy May 8th, 2025 26min to read

Buffett’s Exit and the 4% That Matter: The Final Word on Quality Investing

Now, as Buffett signals his retirement from active leadership, the financial world is experiencing something akin to a tectonic shift. The man who once said his favorite holding period was “forever” is finally stepping back — and in doing so, he leaves behind more than just a mountain of returns. He leaves a framework for long-term thinking that remains radically underappreciated in today’s algorithmic, adrenaline-fueled market. His legacy is not simply in what he bought, but in how he thought. And for investors and traders alike, the lessons in temperament, trust, and time are more relevant now than

Trading Strategy May 1st, 2025 27min to read

Retirement Roulette: How Wall Street and Washington Failed Retirees

In the late 20th century, a subtle but powerful narrative began to take hold across corporate America — one that would fundamentally reshape the retirement landscape and, in turn, the financial security of millions. Investment bankers, consultants, and financial engineers sold executives a simple proposition: shed your pension obligations, and your stock price will rise.

Trading Strategy April 24th, 2025 21min to read

The Bond Market Is Burning – Could Bitcoin Backed Bonds Be America’s Lifeline?

Let’s stop sugarcoating it — the bond market isn’t “cooling off.” It’s turning to ashes. What used to be the safest asset on Earth now trades like a junk bond in a back-alley poker game. Volatility is off the charts. The smart money sees the writing on the wall: America’s credit card is maxed out, the minimum payment’s overdue, and the guy at the register — aka the bond buyer — wants real purchasing power, not promises. Squint and this looks like the early stages of a full-blown sovereign debt collapse.

Trading Strategy April 17th, 2025 14min to read

The Pivot Blueprint: Decoding Market Trends with Daily to Quarterly Pivot Points

Daily pivot points tell you today’s bias. Weekly points show you where the swing trades are heading. Monthly and quarterly levels? That’s where the institutions play. When you stack these timeframes together, you’re trading with a panoramic view of the battlefield. And that’s how you begin to master the market’s hidden rhythms.

Trading Strategy April 11th, 2025 21min to read

Risk Radar: A Simple Method for Navigating Financial Storms and Anticipating Volatility

The challenge I have as a trader and investor is that regardless how I analyze the tariff concerns, I am very skeptical of the Trump administration's ability to correct all of the structural excesses that continue to destroy the purchasing power of the US dollar. Trump and his cabinet all believe in a weaker US dollar and negative interest rates. Both ideas fly in the face of common sense when it comes to defining the health of a currency and country.

Trading Strategy April 3rd, 2025 21min to read

The Trump Effect: The Lasting Impact of Trump’s Tariffs and the Zombie Economy

The challenge I have as a trader and investor is that regardless how I analyze the tariff concerns, I am very skeptical of the Trump administration's ability to correct all of the structural excesses that continue to destroy the purchasing power of the US dollar. Trump and his cabinet all believe in a weaker US dollar and negative interest rates. Both ideas fly in the face of common sense when it comes to defining the health of a currency and country.